“The US national security budget is nearly $700 billion a year (much more if the total costs of Iraq/Afghanistan are thrown in), more than the rest of the world combined. Unfortunately, within that entire budget there isn’t a single research organization or think tank that is seriously studying, analyzing or synthesizing the future of warfare and terrorism…Given that relevancy in rapidly evolving future security challenges will become the key to future public funding of our national security system, will the critical changes be made to anticipate them? Likely not. The smart money is on a failure to change. “

Why we must create resilient community capability. See John Robb/Global Guerillas, 7 March, 2008: